Notre Dame’s 850th Anniversary

The Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris is having a big birthday in 2013, and the church has already started hosting celebrations.

The biggest thing is arguably the fact that Notre Dame is getting quite a present for its birthday – a new set of bells. Long a cause of the kind of controversy that can only happen in Paris, the bells have worn down from ringing for hundreds of years, and their tone has changed as well as their structural integrity.